app-namer

app-namer is a skill for Claude Code from rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (3,392 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A naming guide for turning an app idea into a short list of possible names and checking whether they can be used.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create, compare, and check app names before reserving one in App Store Connect.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when choosing a name and helps avoid names that are already taken or unsuitable for the App Store.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the apple-skills plugin — 147 skills shipped together , and of apple-skills

Good fit It helps create, compare, and check app names before reserving one in App Store Connect.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills/app-namer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills --skill app-namer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,392 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 11
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00073 $0.03392
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01696
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00678
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00339

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6b85c01a9f2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-namer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/product/app-namer/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Namer Skill

Takes an app idea or one-liner and produces a ranked shortlist of 5-8 validated name candidates — not random brainstorming. Each candidate is generated from a naming archetype, paired with a subtitle, checked against App Store display rules, and run through an availability gauntlet (App Store Connect name, trademark, domain, handle) before it's recommended.

The output is a name you can reserve in App Store Connect today, with the keyword work already aligned to feed the app-store/keyword-optimizer skill.

When This Skill Activates

Use this skill when the user:

  • Has an app idea but no name ("what should I call it?")
  • Wants name ideas or a naming brainstorm for a specific app
  • Needs to know if a name is available / safe to use
  • Is about to create the app record in App Store Connect and needs to reserve a name
  • Wants to rename an existing app and needs ownable, ASO-smart options
  • Picked an idea from idea-generator and needs the name before writing the PRD

No app idea yet? Run product/idea-generator first, then come back with the chosen idea.

Already have a locked name and just want ASO? Skip this skill — go to app-store/keyword-optimizer.

Reference Files

Before generating names, load both reference files:

File Purpose
naming-strategies.md The 3 archetypes, naming techniques, App Store display mechanics (30-char limit, home-screen truncation, name/subtitle interplay), good/bad examples
validation-checklist.md The knockout gauntlet — App Store Connect name availability, trademark sanity check, domain/.app, social handles, linguistic safety

What This Skill Does

Idea/positioning
   ↓  elicit
Naming brief (what it does, who it's for, personality, scope ceiling)
   ↓  generate across archetypes
20-40 raw candidates (branded / descriptive / hybrid)
   ↓  filter (pronounce, spell, truncate, confusability)
8-12 survivors
   ↓  pair with subtitle + score
Ranked candidates with name + subtitle + display preview
   ↓  validate (ASC name / trademark / domain / handle)
5-8 validated candidates
   ↓
Recommendation + "reserve now" action

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 260 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 6b85c01a9f2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-namer is a skill published in the GitHub repository rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills (719 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,392 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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